At least two Katyusha rockets have landed in Baghdad’s highly fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions, including the US embassy, as calls grow for the American military to end its presence in Iraq.

A statement released by the Security Media Cell, affiliated with the Iraqi prime minister’s office, said one of the rockets was destroyed in the air by the C-RAM defense system, which protects the American diplomatic mission, and the other landed near the Grand Celebrations Square in the zone, damaging two civilian cars.

The statement added that Iraqi security forces had launched an investigation to identify those responsible for the attack and locate the site where the rockets were launched from.

Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel associated with Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units, better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, reported that sirens went off, warning of a rocket attack on the US embassy in the Green Zone at the Third al-Tawheed Base.